Pageant Paperwork: Your First Impression and Foundation For High Interview Scores.

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Never judge a book by its cover. We hear that saying over and over; and yet, the fact remains that we all make assumptions about people, places or things by their outward appearance. The contents of a particular book may be the exact information we are seeking, but we’ll never get a chance to read it because the cover didn’t capture our attention. We didn’t even pull it from the shelf because something about it initially turned us off. But if the outside is pleasing to you, your first thought may be “Hmm, this book looks interesting. Let me see what’s on the inside.” Although not impossible, it’s hard to reverse a bad first impression.

The first impression that the pageant director, staff and judges form of you is from your submitted paperwork and photo. [Read more…]

Pageant Sponsorship: How To Raise Money To Do A Pageant.

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How do I raise money for a pageant? This is one of the most frequently asked questions I receive as a pageant coach. Having competed for years myself, I know the importance of having the money in the bank BEFORE you commit to doing a pageant. You will need  a minimum of [Read more…]

Pageant Interview Question Tell Me About Yourself

Time and time again I hear from my clients that interview creates a tremendous amount of stress.  First, they dread what the judges will ask during interview.  Secondly, they freak out over how to answer the question perfectly.   Below I cover one way to answer the most common question asked in the interview room- tell me about yourself. [Read more…]

How To Deal With The Disappointment of Not Winning the Title

DSCF3545Three envelopes containing the results from the dance audition arrived in the mail . Two were thick and one is thin. I handed the envelopes to each child in a very normal, matter of fact way, and waited. It’s painful to handle my own personal disappointments; but, it’s excruciating when it happens to one of my kids. [Read more…]

How to Calm Your Nerves in 3 Seconds

“…And in no particular order, the first top ten semi-finalist for the national title of Ms. American Woman is…(drum roll)”
I felt  every beat of my heart.  I was light headed , dizzy, and thought I was going to faint.  [Read more…]

Pageant Preparation: What Do I Do First.

One of my favorite movies is The Sound of Music. I love the scene where Maria (Julie Andrews) asks the children to sing along with her, and their response is that they don’t know how to sing. Shocked at the very thought that anyone couldn’t do such a basic skill she “starts at the very beginning” and teaches the children the simple abc’s of music. Maria explains that these simple steps are the tools upon which all songs are built.

“When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything”. Within minutes, the children are singing beautiful songs with complicated rhythms and harmonies. But they had to master the basics first.

Pageantry is no different but it will take longer than a 3 minute song :). For the most part, you can’t just grab a dress out of your closet, arrive at the pageant and expect to have a winning experience. There are basic steps that need to be addressed first before you move on to the more complicated areas. [Read more…]

10 Insider Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants

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Do you want to know a secret? It’s wonderful to have that inclusive feeling of “I’m special because I have the inside scoop to what’s going on.” However, to be on the outside of an inner circle is quite another story.

I vividly remember the first time at a beauty pageant when I experienced feeling like I was on the outside. I had made the leap from doing small festival pageants to big time beauty pageants. Throughout the weekend  I wondered how some of the contestants seemed to know more information about the pageant than me. Who taught it to them? Where did they receive pageant help? How did they prepare for pageant competition? Why wasn’t this “secret” information made available to everyone? Why was it so hard to find?

So let me share with you what I found out. There are insider secrets to winning beauty pageants. For the most part, there are only a couple ways to find it.

The first way is through your own trial and error. This could use up a lot of your time, energy and money. Personally, I am a very focused and goal oriented person so the idea of wasting my resources and trying to reinvent the wheel did not excite me. Been there, done that. NEXT.

The second way is to find an experienced pageant person who has done what you want to do and have them help you prepare. Sounds easy, but it wasn’t. And once you do find someone, they may not share the whole story with you.

And, finally, you could educate yourself. The problem I had with this was I didn’t know where to start. I couldn’t find that magic manual, or website that had everything in one spot. I easily spent hundreds of hours surfing and reading websites, industry magazines and the few books I could find on pageantry in my quest to get the information I needed to achieve the results I wanted. I wanted solid pageant preparation help and tips.

It was these three problems I wanted solved. So congratulations on finding my blog because you are going to benefit from my 30+ years of experience in the pageant industry as a former contestant, holder of multiple titles, pageant judge, trained life coach, pageant staff member and a mother of three daughters who each are titleholders themselves. My website has three FREE resources available to you right now.

Sign up and download my FREE special report 10 Insider Secrets to Winning. Reading my report will prevent the “Well if I’d known that before I did the pageant I would have done things different” syndrome  some people may experience.

2. You’ll also receive my FREE  ezine Pageant Secrets. It’ll give you winning insider tips to the world of pageantry plus other information available to subscribers only.

3. My FREE interview card, The Beginning 10 Questions, contains the staple interview questions everyone must know the answers to in any interview situation.

 

August 31, 2009 23:00
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